Hooverville

I caught the last hour of speechifying before Charlottesville City Council by the Occupiers. Peace, love, and social transformation. Justice! Drunks cured by love and community, abandoning the bottle. The group coming together in support of one another. Liminality and communitas having their beautiful, tumultuous day down in Lee Park. Council’s recommendation is to somehow institutionalize, let the people keep caring for each other and free-speaking, but do it elsewhere. The Rutherford Institute is in the mix. Maybe Charlottesville will get its own Speakers Corner?

The best suggestion at the November 21 hearing was to occupy the Landmark, the skeletonized ghost hotel on the Downtown Mall.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.